Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Navigator & National Day Song

1) Nothing much to update for this week except for the fact that I have more freedom from 7-11 Aug as parents away to Hainan island again. Guess mother 'd rather keep an eye on father than on us.

One good thing-- i can cook without someone picking on the way I do things. I had made a serving of the longan pasta (recipe from Nicco) last night. Cooked 炸酱面 with CP Shrimp Wonton for dinner today. Brother like the wonton and wanna me to cook the rest tomorrow.

Gonna make potato salad tomorrow so that i can bring some along when ex and I gg to visit our friend who recuperating from her slip disc operation.

2) Speaking on " the ex" , now I remembered I supposed to ramble abt the new phone Nokia 6110 which he let me play with as he was sending me home.

( for more info can check out Nokia's website at http://www.nokia.com.sg/nokia/0,0,101740,00.html )

Being quite an IT idiot, i dunno much abt GPS technology when he mentioned that. So on the way home, he switched on his phone's GPS function even though he does not need a map to navigate around. Quite interesting , to see how accurate the feature is. Even small lanes also appeared on the screen as we passed by them. Can even choose to have the voice command in English, Chinese or Cantonese. Could not really understand Cantonese , though i manage to grasp what it mean when the command said "zhor-bin".

Two things I noted from this "trial":

a) GPS connect was cut off as we were passing through the underground tunnel. He mentioned that to stay connect in such areas, would need to change the setting to AGPS but that comes at cost. Meaning, need to pay for usage of AGPS.
b) just as I asked him if the map will still be shown on the screen when a calls come in, his phone start ringing and even though he din pick it up, the GPS navigation was disconnected and only connected again after the call ends. There was time lag when the system need to recalculate your position and the distance when it reconnects automatically.

I can't imagine what would happened if i am the driver and I never do my homework and solely rely on the GPS navigation and someone sms or call at the "crucial point" when i am wondering which way to turn when approaching a junction.

He mentioned that I can consider buying this model when my current contract expires. I was wondering why he would recommend me to bu a navigator phone when he knows that I don't drive (or rather, Can't drive). Later it dawned on me that I have seen the recent TV ad for this Nokia 6110 , and in the ad, there was this man dressing up in an astronaut costume, using the navigator function to provide him with the directions to walk to his friend's house party.

I know i dun have a sense of directions at times lah!!! Grhhh


3) It's National Day by the time I'm writing this. Happy Birthday Singapore!

I was listining to 933 last week and heard the DJs did a spoof on this year National Day song "there's no place I'd rather be", sung by Kit Chan. I nearly spit out my saliva when i heard the lyrics of their so call "chinese version" of the song.

Finally, manage to find the lyrics and their MV of this so-called chinese version of "There's no place I'd rather be", which is "我的家就在这里"

The lyrics:

我的家就在这里
改编词:周崇庆/萧嘉蕙
原词/曲: 叶良俊

你说要去PARIS 我听成PASIR RIS
长城有魅力 也很吃力
要爬上铁塔 非常EXPENSIVE
其实SENTOSA 会更便宜

这是美丽的天地 我的家就在这里
去到外地 我才发现
原来这里最干净
这里也有PULAU UBIN 要骑脚车也可以
你要很小心 别像周崇庆
不然少了四颗TEETH

这是美丽的天地 我的家就在这里
从JURONG EAST 到 PASIR RIS
TAXI BUS 和 MRT
这是美食的天地 有很多好吃东西
LAKSA CHAR KWAY TEOW 和那 LOR MEE
不满意有云吞MEE

还有SATAY 和福建MEE…

U have been forewarned....

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